Tue.Sep 25, 2018

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How Can Generational Knowledge Transfer Benefit Your Workplace?

Ving!

Young adults and their grandparents have different types of knowledge; it’s just a fact. I may have to show my grandma how to use the key features of her new smartphone, but she’s the person I ask when I need to know who exactly to call to solve a problem. Since the majority of her phone experience has always been with making phone calls, she’s more of an expert in that department.

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Transform Company Culture with Good Communication Analytics

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is sponsored by Microsoft, whose mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. They have a website dedicated to Modern HR , a content collection focused on digital transformation. Check it out when you have a moment. Enjoy the post!). I’m starting to hear more people use the phrase “Culture is the new currency.” as a way to describe how important it is for companies to have a culture that attracts, engages, and r

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4 Ways to Boost Workplace Productivity (And Workplace Happiness) Through Better Communication

Achievers

Between group texts and always-on social media networks, your employees already consider screens and keyboards as vital means to ongoing conversations outside of the workplace. And your company likely uses social channels to build brand awareness, target users with focused messages, handle customer service conversations and more. Now, increasing evidence shows that better communication and using social tools within the workplace can foster increased connection and productivity.

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Your Weekly Dose of HR Tech: @LinkedIn Talent Insights – LI’s newest product!

The Tim Sackett Project

Today on the Weekly Dose I take a look at LinkedIn’s newest product, LinkedIn Talent Insights , which is getting released today for public consumption. Talent Insights is LinkedIn’s first self-serve data and analytics product. Talent Insights provides companies with access to LinkedIn’s global database of 575M+ professionals, 20M+ companies and 15M+ active job listings, to help talent professionals and business leaders develop a winning workforce strategy and make smarter talent decisions

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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Office Hours: How to Deliver Learner Centered Programs

Cornerstone On Demand

This post is part of our biweekly " Office Hours " video series, featuring quick career, workplace and leadership tips from talent management experts and business leaders across the globe. When it comes to employee training, large corporations are in a bit of a tough spot. According to a recent LinkedIn report , 94 percent of employees would stick around longer at a company that invests in career development.

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Stop Calling Recruiting "Talent Acquisition."

Allegis Global Solutions

It’s widely considered a best practice in recruiting to use job titles that are consistent with market conventions and candidate expectations. If you’re trying to hire an accountant, for instance, calling the position a “General Ledger Specialist, Accruals & Reporting” (what one of my employers called the poor bastards balancing the books and budget), while very specific and somewhat sexy, is not likely to yield a whole lot of passive candidates or even active applicants.

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Hello from Kazoo! Meet Alyssa Venere Braun

Kazoo

At Kazoo, we take diversity seriously, and today we’re giving you a prime example: Alyssa Venere Braun. It might seem unlikely to go from nonprofit fundraising to software development (what?) but Alyssa shares why she did and what she loves about her job, Kazoo and the HR tech space. On LinkedIn, you call yourself a “nonprofit fundraiser turned full-stack developer.

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Can we talk about Jane?

HRGem

In recent months my coaching clients have been almost exclusively women. Superwomen most of them. But they don’t feel like it. Let me tell you about Jane. Jane isn’t one woman, she is many. One of many facing similar issues.

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‘Overqualified’ Is Just Another Word for Age Discrimination

TLNT: The Business of HR

Had a really talented lady reach out to me the other day.; 49 years old, college grad, great portfolio of work. She has been interviewing and is being told she is “overqualified.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Why humanizing your business drives profitability

Business Management Daily

In an increasingly digital and impersonal environment, a company culture truly focused on its people is the foundation for driving sustained success. The post Why humanizing your business drives profitability appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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7 Reasons Why Eating Lunch At Your Desk is a Bad Idea

Rise

We all know that eating lunch at your desk isn’t good for you, but yet we still do it. Despite the increasing number of workplace wellness programs out there, most of us can’t resist staying at our desks to get a few extra emails out at lunch. However, staying at your desk all day can decrease your productivity and increase stress levels. Furthermore, sitting for long periods of time can cause a whole host of health issues including back pain, leg disorders, and increased risk of heart disease.

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How to Write a Job Description [Template]

Workology

As part of our Workology series on How to Write a Job Description, we’ve covered the basics of what a job description is and what it’s used for, as well as whether or not you should use a job description template and what to include. In this post, I’ll provide a template you can use […] Source.

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Strategies To Improve Workforce Management In An Organization

SutiHR

In this highly competitive, uncertain, and complex business world, it is only certain that the fundamentals of an enterprise are evolving. Though technology and automation are replacing a lot of manual operations, the core business functionalities are still run by the employee workforce of the organization. Thus, for creating a productive work environment, it is.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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7 Ways to Improve Company Culture

Bonfyre

By focusing on ways to enhance relationships in the workplace, you can begin to improve company culture. Culture connects employees to each other and to the company. Culture impacts every facet of the employee experience and trickles down to bottom line outcomes like productivity, retention, and revenue. So when contemplating ways to improve company culture, developing the relationships an employee has with their coworkers, managers, and leaders is an excellent place to start. 1.

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You are the Steward of Your Legacy

Julie Winkle Giulioni

Guest Post by Peter Giulioni. I’m excited to share a guest post from a new blogger whose work I am confident you’ll appreciate: my husband, Peter Giulioni. He brings decades of management consulting, university administration, and life experience to this article on legacy. Coincidentally, I wrote a blog post on the same topic when Peter’s mom (my mother-in-law) died several years ago.

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Who Wants to be Paid The Minimum Rate?

Compensation Cafe

Did anybody raise their hand? Of course not; no one wants to be paid at the minimum rate of anything. It’s one thing to hold down a minimum wage job and paid the government-mandated rate, but it’s another matter entirely to be higher placed in the organization but only paid the lowest available rate for your job. How would it make you feel? Not a warm, fuzzy moment, is it?

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Using Job Embeddedness Theory to Improve Employee Turnover

TLNT: The Business of HR

A common concern across all industries is employee retention. Though various factors may contribute to turnover among personnel, recent research may shed new light on practical means of improving retention and reducing the costs associated with excessive employee turnover.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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when going to a nude sauna with coworkers, what do I do about nipple piercings? … and other questions

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. When going to a nude sauna with coworkers, what do I do about nipple piercings? I’m an American living in Europe, in a country where nude baths, nude saunas, etc. are normal. So normal, in fact, that my company has a yearly trip to one. On principle, I have no problem with this, but I have nipple piercings, and I’m worried that they’ll be noticed/commented on.

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The Good, the Bad and the Not-So-Ugly Reality of Group Chat in the Workplace

TLNT: The Business of HR

Email may be the veteran of communication in the workplace, but rookie platforms for instantaneous group chat, such as Slack and Microsoft Teams , have changed how employees correspond at work. Digitally-savvy workers of all ages have started replacing email with these newer platforms. But does swapping out email for group chat really increase overall productivity?

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How Much Do Job Titles Really Matter?

Evil HR Lady

BY SUZANNE LUCAS SEPTEMBER 18, 2018. “You can call me anything, just don’t call me late for dinner.”. This old dad joke demonstrates a laid-back attitude towards life, one which I applaud. After all, very few people say my name correctly. (It’s Suzanne, not Susan, thank you!). But, what about job titles? Can we call service employees anything? Does it matter whether someone is a “temperature control expert” or a “HVAC technician” as long as the pay and job duties are the same?

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Managing needy employees: 7 tips to avoid a wrecked workflow

Insperity

As a leader, you walk the tightrope between being available to your employees and focusing on work that has to get done. So, how do you manage the needy employee who seems to always be in your office looking for direction or reassurance? Identifying a needy employee. Certainly, a positive company culture provides opportunities for your staff to seek input and feedback.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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How to Write Job Descriptions to Attract Millennials

Ongig

Recruiting millennials is critical. Millennials (born 1982-2003) will make up 1 of 3 adults in America by 2020 and 75 percent of the workforce by 2025, according to the Brookings Report (see “How Millennials Could Upend Wall Street And Corporate America” ). Veronica Wright, a CEO at ResumesCentre talked about hiring millennials recently: “The energy and ambition of Gen Z cannot be put into words.

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11 steps that you can take now to reduce harassment in your workplace

The Employer Handbook

By Derek Jensen ( Tysto ) – Own work , Public Domain, Link. That sounds more “glass-half-full” than “ Don’t be like the Dallas Mavericks: 11 ways to avoid a Sports Illustrated report chronicling twenty years of allegations of sexual harassment and mismanagement in your workplace. ” Yeah, I’m comfortable with the title of today’s blog post.

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Service and Emotional Support Animals in the Workplace

Extensis

Often, employers aren’t sure how to handle employee requests to bring in service animals, the differences between service animals and emotional support animals, and what is required under the law.

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Cook County Completes Successful Countywide Rollout of WorkForce Software Time and Attendance Solution

Workforce Software

WorkForce Software® and Cook County announced today that they have completed the countywide rollout of the cloud-based WorkForce Time and Attendance solution to modernize timekeeping, increase efficiency and reduce costs.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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my husband’s boss/our friend is sleeping with their married department head

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My husband works for a well-known and well-respected organization. The supervisor of one of his projects, “Jane,” is also a personal friend of ours since before she was promoted. We’re pretty close; we house-sit for each other, etc. Jane broke up with her long-term boyfriend earlier this year because she fell for her boss, “Bob” (also my husband’s boss on another project, and one of the overall department supervisors) and they’ve been sleeping together in

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How Commuter Benefits Work in NYC

Commuter Benefit Solutions

You have the best and worst of it if you are an NYC commuter. By one measure, you have the worst one-way commute time in the United States: about 34 minutes. However, you’ve had a commuter benefits law on the books since January 2016. That law mandates for-profit and nonprofit employers with 20 or more full-time employees to provide the option of using pre-tax income to purchase commuter benefits.

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6 Myths About Employer Brand Dispelled

exaqueo

No longer the new fad or trend, employer brand is quickly becoming a strategic staple for organizations hungry to solve talent challenges. Where leaders used clamor for as much candidate volume as possible, now all we hear is a refrain of “we need the best talent” or “we need talent that will thrive in our culture.” As with most things that shift from trend to a core part of your strategy, there is still confusion in the market.